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"A vanished mother, the grip of darkness, a lifelong mystery. Forty years later, a prosecutor faces them all again, this time as a murder suspect in a pulse-pounding legal thriller of psychological suspense. On a steaming night in 1977, New York City is plunged into darkness and two boys, Joe and Robbie, are abandoned by their mother, Lois. Forty years to the day after this unforgivable moment, Joe is a hard-drinking ADA and Lois has resurfaced:...
82) Blackout
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Told through the memories of those who lived through the events, examines the 1977 power outage that caused monumental mayhem throughout New York City over two hot and humid days. In the documentary, American Experience explores the economic, political, technological, and social consequences of an event that led to both horrifying lawlessness and to innumerable acts of selflessness and generosity.
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Flama and Moko are fourteen years old. The friends expect to spend another boring Sunday with videogames, porn magazines, soft drinks and pizza. Instead, the harmony is broken, and the boys deal with issues such as the parents' divorce, loneliness, and the confusion between adolescent love and friendship.
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Reviews the causes and effects of some major blackouts, from the 1965 power outage that affected much of New England to the 2001 rolling blackouts in California, focusing on the 1977 blackout in New York City that lasted over twenty-five hours. The 1970s was a difficult decade for New York City. Fiscal and social problems plagued the city throughout this time. All of it came to a boil on July 13, 1977, when a blackout occurred in the midst of a terrible...
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Gdy Magda wraca do mieszkania w pewien listopadowy wieczór, miasto niespodziewanie pogrąża się w mroku. Dziewczyna ma wyjątkowego pecha - nie dość, że w całej dzielnicy nie ma prądu, to jeszcze rozładował jej się telefon. Na szczęście przechodzący akurat z latarką mężczyzna oferuje jej pomoc. Rozmowa i wspólny spacer sprawiają, że między dwojgiem nieznajomych rodzi się nić porozumienia. W domu na Magdę czeka mąż, z którym...
86) Blackout
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Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teen love to this interlinked novel of charming, hilarious, and heartwarming stories that shine a bright light through the dark.
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"This novelization follows the thirteen-year-old Marvel Super Hero around her Lower East Side of Manhattan neighborhood, where her family owns and runs a roller-skating rink. As Moon Girl explores the cause of so many unexplained neighborhood power blackouts lately, readers will learn how Moon Girl came to be, meet her sidekick, a giant red T-Rex, and follow them on their first adventure fighting against the evil villain who is bringing darkness to...
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"I never asked to be the sole bearer of the entire Knowledge of your civilization. Yet, here I am, barely sixteen-years-old, and it has fallen upon my shoulders to save what remains of humanity from a second Dark Ages. Your civilization is gone now, lost six hundred years ago in cataclysmic wars brought on by climate change. Your virtual information vanished along with electricity. Only your ancient printed books remain, and they have been scanned...
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"Una sofocante ola de calor deja a la ciudad de Nueva York sumida en un apag̤n, pero en medio de la noche m̀s c̀lida y oscura, otro tipo de chispas brillar̀n en la ciudad. Un primer encuentro. Amigos de toda la vida. Ex amargados. Y quiz̀... el inicio de algo nuevo. Cuando las luces se apagan, los sentimientos m̀s profundos salen a la luz: el amor florece, la amistad se transforma en algo nuevo y todas las posibilidades tienen una oportunidad...
92) Blackout
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When the power goes out in the city, a certain family discovers that "not normal" can be fun.
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"Đêm đó, th⁾ trÆn nh₁ Tuyßt Luân Đ¿ mÆt đißn, nhân vƯt chính Trương C₇ chŁy đ¿n h₁i anh bŁn tr̨c trŁm đißn là Phùng Kình vℓ nguyên nhân mÆt đißn, nhưng anh chđng nhƯn đư̂c câu trĐ l¿i mình cʹn mà kì lŁ là anh bŁn kia lŁi h₁i lŁi Trương C₇ m₎t câu rÆt khó hi©u: "Ba t͡r m₎t błng mÆy?". Khi vℓ nhà, Trương C₇ bÆt cĥt gʺp m₎t đ̌a bé trai ch⁹ đ₎ m₎t tu₇i...
94) Ocean's 11
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Eleven friends who know each other from World War II service plan to rob five of the biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night. They develop a master plan, but after the whole thing is over something goes wrong.
95) Blackout
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A look at what happened in Brooklyn's forgotten East Flatbush neighborhood during the largest blackout in 2003, and how the looters emerged and the violence erupted as darkness came.
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"Just when she thought things were going up . . . Two years after a devastating breakup, Brittni Mitchell has moved on from Justin Avery--or so she tells herself. But when she returns to Seattle for her best friend's engagement party, Brittni finds herself the victim of a disastrously timed elevator breakdown. She's trapped with the last person she wants to face, and forced to recount the past she desperately wants to forget. She's going to have to...
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Blackout volume 1
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Polish
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When the lights go out one night, no one panics. Not yet. The lights always come back on soon, don't they? Surely it's a glitch, a storm, a malfunction. But something seems strange about this night. Across Europe, controllers watch in disbelief as electrical grids collapse. There is no power, anywhere. A former hacker and activist, Piero investigates a possible cause of the disaster. The authorities don't believe him, and he soon becomes a prime suspect...
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In the summer of 1977, New York was a city in crisis. Paralyzed by a citywide blackout, political strife and the Son of Sam killing spree, the Big Apple was burning. Rising out of this troubled urban landscape to bring hope and inspiration came one of baseball's most storied franchises, The New York Yankees. Traces the amazing-but-true story of how the New York Yankees single-handedly helped raise the spirits of a city in a time of darkness and uncertainity....
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My weirder school volume 2
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"El Sr. Santana, el técnico de la Escuela Prima Aria, puede arreglar cualquier cosa: computadoras, teléfonos, sacapuntas. Y además puede construir lo que sea, hasta un paraguas de energía solar. ¡Qué friki! Pero cuando se va la electricidad en la escuela, todos gritan y chillan y se asustan en la oscuridad como locos. ¿Podrá el Sr. Santana sacarlos del apuro?"--
When the power goes out in the school, everyone panics in the dark, and only...
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